Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Keep no company with winebibbers and riotous eaters of flesh;
New American Standard Bible
Or with
King James Version
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
Holman Bible
or with those who gorge themselves on meat.
International Standard Version
Don't associate with heavy drinkers or dine with gluttons,
American Standard Version
Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
Amplified
Do not associate with heavy drinkers of wine,
Or with gluttonous eaters of meat,
Bible in Basic English
Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:
Darby Translation
Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou shalt not be with those drinking wine to excess, and with squanderers of flesh to them:
King James 2000
Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of meat:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not be among drinkers of wine, among gluttonous eaters of {their meat}.
Modern King James verseion
Do not be among those who drink much wine, among gluttons for flesh for themselves,
NET Bible
Do not spend time among drunkards, among those who eat too much meat,
New Heart English Bible
Do not be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:
The Emphasized Bible
Do not be among them who tipple with wine, - among them who are gluttons;
Webster
Be not among wine-bibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
World English Bible
Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:
Youngs Literal Translation
Be not thou among quaffers of wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,
Themes
Total abstinence » From intoxicating beverages
Company » Who not to have company with
Drunkenness » Avoid those given to
Poverty » Who will end up in poverty
Temperance » In relation to food in relation to speech » Appetites to be restrained
Topics
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References
American
Word Count of 19 Translations in Proverbs 23:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Learning From Your Father
19 My son, give ear and be wise, so shall thine heart prosper in the way. 20 Keep no company with winebibbers and riotous eaters of flesh; 21 for such as be drunkards and riotous shall come to poverty, and he that is given to much sleep, shall go with a ragged coat.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 5:22
Woe be unto them that are cunning men to sup out wine and expert to set up drunkenness.
Romans 13:13
Let us walk honestly as it were in the daylight: not in eating and drinking: neither in chambering and wantonness: neither in strife and envying:
Ephesians 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess: but be fulfilled with the spirit,
Proverbs 28:7
Whoso keepeth the law, is a child of understanding; but he that feedeth riotous men, shameth his father.
Isaiah 5:11
Woe unto them that rise up early to use themselves in drunkenness, and yet at night are more superfluous with wine.
Matthew 24:49
and begin to smite his fellows: yea and to eat and to drink with the drunken:
Luke 21:34
Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be overcome with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this world: and that, that day come on you unawares.
Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a voluptuous thing, and drunkenness causes sedition; whoso delighteth therein, shall never be wise.
Proverbs 23:29-35
Where is woe? Where is sorrow? Where is strife? Where is brawling? Where are wounds without cause? Where be red eyes?
Proverbs 31:6-7
Give strong drink unto such as are condemned to death, and wine unto those that mourn:
Isaiah 22:13
But they to fulfill their lust and willfulness, slaughter oxen: they kill sheep, they eat costly meat, and drink wine. "Let us eat and drink, tomorrow we shall die."
Luke 15:13
And not long after, the younger son gathered all that he had together, and took his journey into a far country, and there he wasted his goods with riotous living.
Luke 16:19
"There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple, and fine bysse, and fared deliciously every day.
1 Peter 4:3-4
For it is sufficient for us that we have spent the time that is past of the life, after the will of the gentiles; walking in wantonness, lusts, drunkenness, in eating, drinking, and in abominable idolatry.